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Phipps, Stephen Paul; Ballotti, Dean M (1991): Ultimate and failure strengths of normal muds and serpentinite muds of ODP Leg 125 samples [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.770832, Supplement to: Phipps, SP; Ballotti, DM (1992): Rheology of serpentinite muds in the Mariana-Izu-Bonin Forearc. In: Fryer, P; Pearce, JA; Stokking, LB; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 125, 363-372, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.125.154.1992

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Abstract:
Serpentinite seamounts in the Mariana forearc have been explained as diapirs rising from the Benioff zone. This hypothesis predicts that the serpentinites should have low strengths as well as low densities relative to the surrounding rocks.
Drilling during Leg 125 showed that the materials forming Conical Seamount in the Mariana forearc and Torishima Forearc Seamount in the Izu-Bonin forearc are water-charged serpentinite muds of density <2 g/cm**3. Wykeham-Farrance torsion-vane tests showed that they are plastic solids with a rheology that bears many similarities to the idealized Cam clay soil model and is well described by critical-state soil mechanics. The serpentinite muds have ultimate strengths of 1.3 to 273.7 kPa and yield strengths of approximately 1.0 to 50 kPa. These muds thus are orders of magnitude weaker than salt and are, in fact, comparable in density and strength to common deep-sea clay muds. Such weak and low-density materials easily become diapiric. Serpentinite muds from the summit of Conical Seamount are weaker and more ductile than those on its flanks or on Torishima Forearc Seamount. Moreover, the summit muds do not contain the pronounced pure- and simple-shear fabrics that characterize those on the seamount flanks.
The seamounts are morphologically similar to shield volcanoes, and anastomosing serpentinite debris flows descending from their summits are similar in map view to pahoehoe flows. These morphologic features, together with the physical properties of the muds and their similarities to other oceanic muds and the geochemistry of the entrained waters, suggest that many forearc serpentinite seamounts are gigantic (10-20 km wide, 1.5-2.0 km high) mud volcanoes that formed by the eruption of highly liquid serpentinite muds.
Torishima Forearc Seamount, which is blanketed by more ìnormalî pelagic/volcaniclastic sediment, has probably been inactive since the Miocene. Conical Seamount, which seems to consist entirely of serpentinite mud and is venting fresh water of unusual chemistry from its summit, is presently active. Muds from the flanks of Conical Seamount are stronger and more brittle than those from the summit site, and muds from Torishima Forearc Seamount are stronger yet; this suggests that the serpentinite debris flows are compacted and dewatered as they mature. The shear fabrics probably result from downslope creep and flow, but may also be inherited.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 26.367060 * Median Longitude: 143.722660 * South-bound Latitude: 19.512500 * West-bound Longitude: 141.738000 * North-bound Latitude: 30.964300 * East-bound Longitude: 146.696000
Date/Time Start: 1986-03-26T10:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-03-31T10:00:00
Event(s):
125-779A * Latitude: 19.512500 * Longitude: 146.696000 * Date/Time Start: 1989-02-28T10:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-03-04T03:00:00 * Elevation: -3958.0 m * Penetration: 317.2 m * Recovery: 73.24 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg125 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 37 cores; 317.2 m cored; 0 m drilled; 23.1 % recovery
125-779B * Latitude: 19.512500 * Longitude: 146.696000 * Date/Time Start: 1989-02-27T23:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-02-28T10:00:00 * Elevation: -3958.0 m * Penetration: 9 m * Recovery: 8.7 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg125 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 1 core; 9 m cored; 0 m drilled; 96.7 % recovery
125-780D * Latitude: 19.542500 * Longitude: 146.653300 * Date/Time Start: 1989-03-09T04:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-03-10T23:45:00 * Elevation: -3100.0 m * Penetration: 32.4 m * Recovery: 9.09 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg125 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 7 cores; 32.4 m cored; 0 m drilled; 28.1 % recovery
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  1. Phipps, SP; Ballotti, DM (1992): (Table 4) Ultimate and failure strengths of serpentinite muds from ODP Hole 125-779A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.770831
  2. Phipps, SP; Ballotti, DM (1992): (Table 1) Ultimate and failure strengths of serpentinite muds from ODP Hole 125-780D. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.770824
  3. Phipps, SP; Ballotti, DM (1992): (Table 2) Ultimate and failure strengths of muds from ODP Hole 125-781A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.770825
  4. Phipps, SP; Ballotti, DM (1992): (Table 3) Ultimate and failure strengths of muds from ODP Hole 125-783A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.770826
  5. Phipps, SP; Ballotti, DM (1992): (Table 5) Ultimate and failure strengths of normal clay muds from ODP Hole 125-784A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.770827